Tuesday, September 30, 2008

What happenned when the brain is clogged?

You must have experienced a time when the problem seems unsolved, the brain is not moving and all the way that you are looking for is closed. And nothing that you do previously is satisfying enough to be called a solution to your problem.

Desperate. Is it the thing that you are experience?

To my experience, brain clogging and inability to continue solving the problem is the most common enemy to every job. Happen all the time. All the moment.

Here's my tips on working to your brain to stop the brain clogging:

1. Understand the situation and take it. Without your big heart to say that your brain is clogged and your admittance that you are on your limit, and you keep continue your effort at the moment is totally will never get you anywhere. Your brain has limits and if you keep moving on the same direction towards the problem, it will not get you anywhere.

2. Take a fun break, really fun break, get out and do not touch your problem. Let it go and have some fun. The point is to recharge and to regain your relaxation and self esteem. Don't push. Just enjoy a fun. Set for a couple hour break that really fruitful.

3. When you are relax, come back again, but this time, look into the problem in a new way. Do not ever bring the point where you stop the last time. Just have a new point of view, just look at the problem like the 1st time you do. Force yourself to seek from the other new angle.

4. Always simplify the problem. If you think that the marketing and advertising jargon is killing you, why can't you transform into a simpler day to day language that will make you understand the problem better? It definitely will make you able to solve the problem better.

5. Remember: if you understand that an idea is just a solvent to a problem, then everything will be much easier. Find the problem, define it into simpler language and find the solution, and try to relate the solution into some different and unique thoughts that will spark the mind and heart of the audience.

6. I hope it works, cause it works for me.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

The simple question is every person have an unique to control and release her mind/idea. How you can explain if that person is not like you?

yosep said...

Gia, I know that everybody is definitely different, but when the brain is clogged, it's better to take a break for a while before continuing the process again. The suggestion however is not personally apply to myself, I would just go on but coming into the problem from a different angle with the same or bigger appetite to finish the problem. Well, to answer your comment, this all is just an advice, coming from me while looking at common issues and general way to solve it. The point is a problem could be solved in a lot of angles. And it will work if we can see the "different angle". Usually when the brain is clogged, the ability to look into the problem in different angle is diminishing, so my suggestion is simple. Unclogged the brain. How? Take the simple way, have fun. And when you go back into the problem fresher, I believe anyone can see things better. -- ciao